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For the translation of 'thin, clean' does it matter which order the adjectives appear in French ?
Is s'en aller used in the negative form? If so, what is the construction?
The answer to #7 on the calendar is la neige but I answered une boule à neige (a snow globe) because that's what it looks like to me.
Why is personne considered a plural noun? I thought it needed an “s” to be plural.
Why is it that in some cases you use lui and in others you use elle?
For the line « Il n'aime pas le vert » one of the reference lessons is to the use of colours as adjectives with changes in gender/number. However, in this sentence « vert » is a noun, and a more relevant reference would be to the use of (definite) articles with ne ... pas as linked here:
Du/de la/de l'/des all become de/d' in negative sentences (French Partitive Articles)
These names might apply reasonably specifically to 'basketball shoes' or generically to 'sports shoes' in some parts of the English-speaking world, but not everywhere. Why not use 'tennis shoes' in a story based around tennis ? ( « les baskets » is appropriately covered in another of the writing topics ).
Salut! Pouvez-vous m'expliquer la phrase suivante?
nous nous attendions tous à ce que ça soit une belle journée hivernale.|D'ou vient "ce que ca soit"? Si j'avais dit: nous nous attendions tous a que ca soit...?
Merci!
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